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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70D0205

1969-10-10 PRATTVILLE, Alabama, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CALLAIR A-5 · N29226

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 3 kt

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000277

Total time

1,192 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

996

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D POWER LOSS. ACFT SETTLED INTO TREES.

Investigator remarks

CARB HEAT CNTL SLIPPED TO FULL ON POSITION,CAUSE

Cause factors

  • 74/C/I3 C
    POWERPLANT INDUCTION AIR,PREHEAT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/L/24 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4706. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4706.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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